Monday, January 10, 2011

Burlap Wreath Tutorial & Giveaway

It's Monday and it's not my favorite day of the week. Let's think positive and start this week out happy by having a giveaway﻿! This week's giveaway is going to be this burlap wreath...

The giveaway will be simple. There are three different ways to enter (1) Leave a comment. I love comments they make me happy. Feel free to leave your blog link so I can come check out what your creating! (2) Become an Awesome Person (follower). If you are already an awesome person (which I'm sure you are) it's a freebie entry! (3) Blog, tweet or facebook about this post.

Good luck and leave a comment for each time you enter. The winner will be announced Monday morning January 12, 2011. Now some of you are saying "I never win anything". Yeah that would be me. My husband wins everything but I'm just not lucky. Enter anyway because it's free! Then if for some strange reason you don't win I'm going to show you exactly how to make this wreath below.

Burlap Wreath Tutorial

Grab yourself a wreath of some sort. I used a 14 inch straw one because they are cheap and you won't even see what it looks like under the burlap. Cut strips of burlap at 6 inch in your color of choice. Put a strip of hot glue to hold the beginning strip of burlap﻿.

Wrap your burlap around the wreath. I put a strip of hot glue every once in a while to make sure it would stay in place.

The next step is to loosely twist the burlap and start wrapping it around the wreath.

After I was done I made sure all the twists are to my liking and then put dots of glue under to hold. I don't think it's necessary so you can skip that step in you choose. I then put a dot of glue on the wreath and tucked in the end of the burlap.

There are a bunch of different ways to make the rosettes. I've tried out a few. I saw the style I have been using online somewhere but I can't find where. If it looks familiar let me know and I'll link it to you. Cut a strip of burlap about 3 inches wide

Fold the end in half.

Fold the end in half again.

Roll the end a few times until it looks like this...

Twist the burlap and start wrapping it around the roll.

Put some hot glue on an extra piece of burlap.

Put the rosette on the hot glue and tuck the end in. I always burn myself on this step. It never fails.

Cut around your rosette...

The back will look something like this...

To make the other style burlap flowers. Follow THIS tutorial. (Instead of an ornament shape I traced circles on a thin piece of chipboard and cut them out.) I made 3 flowers of each style and then hot glued them to my wreath.

Your finished!! I don't know what it is but when you make something yourself it looks 10x better than buying it at the store.

For those who don't care to make a burlap wreath but want one I will be selling them in my etsy store.

146 comments:

How cute, Melinda! Love the wreath and great tut! I would love to win this great wreath for my farmhouse door. Come visit me at prim.crafts.blogspot.com when you get a chance.Thank you for sharing this great craft.

Whenever I see such cute (and fairly easy) projects I have to seriously fight the urge to not run right out and by all the materials I need to make it! This is one of those times! I may even try my hand at 2 and use one as a gift for this weekend!

I'm definitely a follower! I love all of your crafts. Especially this wreath! It is so adorable!! I really hope I win! I would love the wreath and I know exactly where I would put it. On my front door!

Thanks for the chance to win, and super thanks for the tute. I totally thought you cut the burlap and tact it on with glue, not just wrapped it around. Good thing you showed me the correct way, otherwise I could see this turning into one of those projects that get started but not finished :)mommy saves at yahoodot com.

AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I seriously had a dream about your burlap wreath last night, it was sitting pretty on my front door, it.looked.good. Then I come to check out your blog, like I do everyday and YOU'RE GIVING ONE AWAY! I think my dream was telling me that this wreath would be mine :)

I commented yesterday for my 3 times so don't count this one but I wanted to come back and tell you that I made this today! I'm disappointed in how mine came out because I couldn't find that billowy burlap that you wrapped it in, mine is just kinda all stiff. I need to come up with something to jazz it up a bit now. My little flowers are alright though!

I absolutely love love love this wreath.....it's gorgeous. You can check out my new blog (and by new I mean really new-yesterday so you might want to wait a month or two) at onecreativecorner.blogspot.com

Wow! You have a LOT of comments here!Just wanted to let you know that I linked to this tutorial on my potato sack blog.This is the link.http://potatoboutique.blogspot.com/2011/01/great-burlap-wreath.htmlThanks for sharing!

Absolutely adorable...I am sharing this with my BFF and if I don't win (which I never do, haha!) I will be making one for our new house we will close on in a few weeks as a housewarming gift to my family (and myself!) Thanks for inspiring! -Emily F. (www.carrotstew.blogspot.com)I apologize in advance for the lack of posts lately...new baby in the house keeping me busy:)

LOVE this! I will be promptly sharing the link on my blog and with my BFF...if I don't win I will be making one for the new home my hubby and I will be closing on in a few weeks! Nice housewarming gift:)Thanks for inspiring:) -Emily F.

I really like the burlap you have - where did you buy it? When I was at my local JoAnn Fabrics - the stuff I bought looks stiffer than what you have. I am making a small wreath here in a few minutes with some cream, dark brown, and sage colored burlap. Crossing my fingers!